I'm a single dad currently living with my mom as I look into buying
a house. I'm very compartmentalized & protective of my family
& friends & pretty introverted. So don't expect to be
introduced around at the third date or possibly even a few months
in, I like to take my time & I'm careful about keeping my life
in separate little boxes.

I'm a bit of a good time guy now aiming more towards settling down.
I like the outdoors & now that winter is here I might actually
have the time to explore it! Recently picked up a book of hot
springs, would love an adventuring partner to go check a few out
sometime. Bonus points if you own a canoe.

Here's some other stuff about me:

I can't dance but make up for it with enthusiasm.
I love random trivia and learning things.
I cook pretty well.
I eat better than I cook.
That's why I run.
I think the world is more complex than we give it credit for but
simpler than we expect it to be.
I smile every day, even when sad and I do it genuinely.

I'm also tall, tend towards the sarcastic and at work try to make
small connections with customers over the cash register; maybe I
ask where they last used their airline miles, maybe I compliment
them for looking better than their driver's license picture. Either
way I think it's appreciated. :-)

I do great conversations over email, small conversations over text
and my real life conversations run the gamut and depend on how
quick whom I'm conversing with is.

My favorite time to listen to NPR is right after the supreme court
comes down with a few decisions and I think they were dead wrong in
the Hobby Lobby case as you can already see it being interpreted
far wider than Alito expressed in his majority opinion.

Well, I think that's enough talking right now. Rock on you shining
stars!

Currently working at the family business of being a nurseryman. So
most days I haul plants, answer questions about plants, haul
pavers, sell veggies and generally try not to screw things up. Oh,
I also drive a tractor. very important that last bit.

Books - fantasy and sci-fi - very happy over how the genre is now
being taken seriously again and has grown up a bit. Love Game of
Thrones, Kingkiller Chronicles and Ender's Game among others.
Movies I tend to fall in the same path, love the summer blockbuster
season.

I've never read David Sedaris but hope he's 1/2 the humorist that
Pat McManus is.

I like most kinds of music but prefer recorded to live. My Pandora
station has - among others - Harvey Danger, Flogging Molly, KT
Tunstel, Woodkid, Placebo, The Cure, The Smiths and others. I also
think Thriller is one of the best made pop albums ever and would
listen to it far more often than the entire Nirvana song catalog if
forced.

My favorite food is probably BBQ'd ribs, but I also love a great
Pad Thai or Pho and I like cooking as well.

Outside of you know, that whole hierarchy of needs thing I prefer
to think of 6 things that make my life easier:
Sleep
The Internet - this is adding a device to view it on
Good Books
Sex
Open Sky
Good Food

As you might have figured out from the whole "impending dad-hood"
deal above that yeah, that's of big concern. Everything from the
legal ramifications of being separate parents to how good a dad I
can be and what I can pass on to him as he grows up. There's a lot
of questions there.

In not so serious stuff, was wondering today if Chip and Dale's:
Rescue Rangers would have had a different aesthetic theme had Tom
Selleck played Indiana Jones. I'm not going to explain that to you,
but if you get it, then you should probably message me.

You want to work out together. You enjoy hiking. You want to meet
my dog. You wonder why the Klamath Basin has such huge potential
but still hasn't managed to capitalize on it and want someone to
talk with about it. I dunno, maybe just you want to and think I'm
cute?